Education

The centre's research and production activities constantly reverberate into a wide array of educational initiatives that are conducted and articulated according to different beneficiaries and objectives: formation directed towards audiences and cultural operators, teaching activities for children, professional courses for young professionals in the fields of audio ad musical technologies. Tempo Reale's internship program regularly accepts young scholars coming from both scientific-technological and musical backgrounds.

The project DRINNN! Come suona la mia scuola? (What does my school sound like?) is a series of workshops created in 2013, raising awareness on environmental sound in the classrooms of primary schools in Florence. School desks, chairs, pencils, pencil cases, and everything leading up to hands and feet transforms into audio material for original musical scores coming directly from the children’s creativity.…

Orkestra Ristretta is the result of Massimo Altomare’s long-standing work and well-established experience within Sollicciano Prison, wherein music presents itself as a chance for opening up, for dialogue, and for knowledge. The partnership with Tempo Reale started in 2014, reciprocally linked by common ideals and methodological approaches.…

A parallel itinerary towards learning and self-awareness regarding the new technological and conceptual mechanisms that define the most recent examples of sound art: this is the promise of the Field Recording /Arno workshop, which will be held in Florence from the 25th to the 27th of October, 2016. The objectives of the workshop, curated by Bernard Fort (GMVL, Lyon), are to provide the basic instruments for the collection, the creation, and the re-elaboration of a natural soundscape in an artistic vein. The workshop, which is intended for musicians, young creatives, and artists, will concentrate on the sound landscape of the Arno river and is part of the initiatives of the RIVA Project, held in collaboration with Le Murate. Progetti Arte Contemporanea and Fondazione Studio Marangoni in the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the flood of the Arno.…

Workshop by Matteo MarangoniStarting from an interest in the auditory perception of urban spaces and of architecture, the workshop “CITY SONDOLS – the art of sounds from an urban perspective” contributes temporary appropriation techniques for urban and architectural spaces, transforming them into scenic design for sonic and aesthetic rituals where the line between protest, gameplay, and sensory exploration is at its thinnest.…